LQS is one of those China-focused minifigure brands. They usually lack creativity when it comes to designs (unlike Kopf, XINH, WM, etc.) and have subpar quality. These are the "true" knockoff brands" since their minifigure designs are ripped off of Lego designs.
The set came with 8 boxes and each box came with 3 minifigures. Unfortunately, I lost track of which came in which so I just took pictures of them semi-randomly.
We made a preview post for this here.
I'll start with talking about these minifigures and what they have in common: extra arms on their backs. LQS doesn't have the typical backpack mold for backpack arms, so they used the above and below designs.
I applaud the creativity, at least. Although, they end up making the minifigures look bulky and would event prevent them from standing straight unless they're on plates.
For the rest of the review, we'll remove these extra arms on their backs. We just want to focus on the overall minifigure quality and what to expect from LQS when it comes to minifigures.
This is one of the minifigures from this LQS set and we'll use him as the template. The arms on all the minifigures have those long pegs, similar to some HJLepin minifigures (another China-focused Lego-alternative brand).
None of these minifigures had back prints which are becoming more and more common in Chinese Lego-knockoff brands.
Overall though, the print quality was great. Sure, there are no back prints, but at least the fronts look good. The plastic quality also felt nice, but compatibility with other brands, especially with the arms, might become a problem.
These are the three Iron Spider minifigures and at least they're all slightly different from each other, especially the Spider-Man minifigure with the Instant Kill Mode face.
Here are more Spider-Man variants, nothing new here again.
More variants, nothing new again.
Black Suit Spider-Man, seemingly from the Raimi Spider-Man films. Spider-Man Noir. Stealth Suit Spider-Man. Nothing new here again, but the black suit Spidey looks a bit unique from others we've seen in the past. Noir also has a different hat mold, which shows that LQS really doesn't have access to a lot of molds.
An interesting fig here is Spider-Girl (Anya Corazon) because this is her only appearance as a knockoff minifigure. Spider-Gwen and Nick Fury are pretty common in the bootlego scene. Nick's face also looks a bit too small, lol/
Mysterio didn't come with a cloth cape and also didn't have the orb head/helmet. Although, this is the only knockoff of that Lego Mysterio variant that we have (but other non-Lego-based designs look better than Lego's design arguably).
The set came with two Carnage minifigures. Carnage is everywhere in Lego sets these days, and while it looks good, it's gotten boring.
Nothing new here again, but at least LQS has the sand legs mold for Sandman.
No back prints, like the others. Vulture has a new wing design, lol; it's a 1x1 modified brick with open studs on all sides and two green wing pieces. Those pieces might be useful for other MOCs.
For the minifigures below, they were interesting (in my opinion) designs that were copied/inspired from Lego's designs.
This is LQS' take on the Iron Venom minifigure (on the right is LEGO Iron Venom). They probably didn't have the helmet mold, but it's interesting that they didn't even try to copy the Iron Venom torso design. Instead, LQS decided to use the Stealth Suit body as a base and a Cyborg Spider-Man in black as a head.
The one on the right is LEGO's Stealth Big Time Spider-Man minifigure. The one on the left is LQS' knockoff. They're... different enough, which is great for people who already own the Big Time Spider-Man suit. Again, I find it weird that LQS was able to copy other designs like Anya Corazon relatively accurately but couldn't do so for Iron Venom and Big Time. Don't get me wrong though, I actually prefer that they didn't copy them 100% accurately so that completionists are incentivized to still get LEGO's designs.
So that's how LQS makes their minifigures. They're honestly decent. Far from amazing, but far from horrible too. The lack of back prints is the worst part, then the lack of molds. Although, if you're on a tight budget and can't afford the original Lego minifigures of these designs, at least these are still here (since most minifigure brands have stopped ripping off Lego's designs).
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